The Archive · 1926

DICKENS'S FAMILY

TROUBLES

An Unpublished Early Letter The current number of "The Dickensian" publishes for the frst ime a letter the day that "The jade their appearance.

Tt is_adiressed to his uncle, Thomas Burrow, and in the courge of it the novelist says:—

"The great success of my book, and the name it has established for me among the publishers, enables me to settle at an earlier period than Lat first supposed possible; I have, therefore, fixed Saturday next for my marriage with Miss Hogarth, the daughter of a gentleman who has recently distinguished himself by a celebrated work on music, who was the most intimate friend and companion of Sir Walter Scott, and one of the most eminent among the literati of Edinburgh,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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